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24 Mar 2022: “We’re either a massive brake or accelerator on climate resilience depending on our actions.” The UK’s built environment, of which the construction sector is a significant component, contributes approximately 40% of our nation’s carbon

15 Aug 2022: Welcome to Murray Edwards Congratulations on getting your place.  These pages contain lots of information and will be updated often between now and when you arrive in October so please visi

30 Aug 2022: Baking hot, bicycles, additive manufacturing, Russia, Malaysia, Queen Mary University of London. The pond in Comberton, completely barren with all water evaporated due to the heat wave and lack of rain. This is the Comberton pond in 2001 when we had

17 Mar 2023: How can we make sure food shortages don’t keep happening? Can we stop fake climate news holding up action? Are we ready for a four-day working week? And how do we stop becoming more stupid? The programme features a wide-ranging series of more than

8 Oct 2022: X-ray diffraction equipment. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Desktop X-ray diffraction machines for teaching undergraduates the way diffraction data are collected. Everything is manual, for example, the manipulation of the Geiger counter as a function of

14 Feb 2023: Speakers include journalist Emily Maitlis, political sketch writer John Crace, Professor David Runciman, former host of the respected Talking Politics podcast and Dorothy Byrne, president of Murray Edwards College and former Head of News and Current

9 Oct 2022: Professor Wenwen Song (Aachen University) visits Harry. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Professor Wenwen Song, of Aachen University in Germany, visits Harry at Queen Mary University of London. She is renowned for her work on steels and recently was awarded

6 Mar 2023: How did the Romantic poets contribute to the collective imagination that enabled slavery to thrive? Who does Greek and Roman antiquity belong to? How do literary responses to the social, political and cultural changes from the 1920s compare with

8 Oct 2022: Rail moving points. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. The French high-speed rail authorities have mandated that moving points must be made from the carbide-free bainitic steel. Here I took some pictures at the Cambridge rail station to use in a book that I am

2 Mar 2023: From Australian animals to African storytelling, from bird poo to virtual reality; this is a weekend full of ideas to spark your curiosity and imagination. Who’s going to laugh loudest… Elephants or Pumpkins? Girl or Wolf? Monkey or God? Who’s